Provisions: Items for travel and adventure

May being Bike Month and all, here’s a solution for women – and cross-dressing men – who bike in skirts. An outfit from New York is marketing a set of oval weights that clip onto the hem of a skirt so it doesn’t fly up and give passers-by a free show. Sounds interesting, but wouldn’t the weight hit against your knees as you pedal? The makers tout other uses for the weight: “walking down gusty streets” and “standing on windy subway platforms.” Imagine if Marilyn Monroe had had skirtweights in “The Seven Year Itch.”

You know, we were just thinking: Why isn’t there a convenient, no-muss-or-fuss badminton set that we can tote along with us on our next outing? Turns out, there’s this. It’s a complete badminton set in, essentially, a suitcase. And you use the case itself as weight to keep the net up. Brilliant. And economical, too. It might actually force us to play badminton once in a while.